Old UK TV adverts :)

[Alinestra Covelia]

"Accrington Stanley? Who are they?!"

[Alinestra Covelia]

And on and on and on and Ariston

[Dauphin]

Re-record not fade away.

[Dauphin]

[Hueij]

Here is one from a Dutch insurance company. They showed it in theaters before a certain well-known disaster movie.

[Hueij]

Another one for the same company. Their take on alien invasions...

[Alinestra Covelia]

Haha! Those are really good!

I like beer ads - the UK ones are pretty witty most times.

Stella Artois had some really good ones.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Another one from Stella. This was the first one I saw and I loved it. Made me a Stella lass after that!

[Alinestra Covelia]

Another one that I thought was truly excellent.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Dauphin - love the "re-record not fade away" one! I was about 7 when I first saw that one, and even though I was living in China at the time, I saw it on a tape (probably Scotch VHS!) that a Briton friend of the family had made. I remember they had Raggedy Anne and Andy and possibly the Blue Peter variety show on it, and there was that advertisement.

I also remember that variety shows like Blue Peter and Top Banana completely flummoxed me. As an American-born girl I couldn't understand the format of those shows at all, or why there were a load of Brit presenters showing completely random unrelated stuff in between all the cartoons.

[Dauphin]

I was brought up on American TV like Nickelodeon as a kid, so never really watched those other programmes.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Yeah, I watched some Nickelodeon while I was still in the US. They had DangerMouse, which I was delighted to see was also present in the UK. My intake of TV before age 8 was all US, so I missed out on a lot of UK kids' shows like Rosie and Jim and Grotbags the Witch - which placed me at a crushing disadvantage with the UK kids

But for a time I kept wondering if the ceiling would open up with green slime every time somebody on TV said "I don't know".

I will say that British TV is much more liberal about nudity and sexual themes than US TV is. I was about 10 when I started watching "Allo Allo" and even back then I caught most of the adult humor in it. And "Lady Chatterley's Lover" with Joely Richardson and Sean Bean aired when I was 12. Pretty much all my fellow schoolgirl classmates had seen it too.

[Sandman]

[Alinestra Covelia]

!!!

That is truly fantastic! So funny when the kids look at each other thinking "Eh? How does that work?"

This is old school. And notice that it features Hugh Laurie before he grew a scruffpot beard and defected to American TV!

[Adam Smith]

Nick Park's Creature Comforts series